What New Habitual Patterns Result In A Healthy Relationship?

Learn to identifying distancing patterns to replace, so you can achieve healthy relationships.

In Healthy Relationships, couples replace distancing and repetitive unhealthy patterns with healthier patterns that result in greater collaboration and harmony. With new awareness, self correction, and repetition, the new pattern will eventually take hold over time. Better collaboration will give each partner in the marriage or relationship increased confidence to achive a healther partnership. Some examples of these unhealthy patterns and their healthy alternatives are listed below (this list is by no means definitive):

Now ask yourself: "What need am I trying to meet, or what problem is this an attempt to solve, or what familiar role does this pattern maintain?"3. Once the need, problem to solve, or familiar role is identified, you can find alternative collaborative patterns to attain the same result, where both parties benefit.4. Sustainability is achieved by repetition of the new pattern and self correction as the old pattern attempts to emerge.

Being On The Receiving End Of A Distancing Pattern - Propose, to the person using it, that they consider using one of the healthier alternatives listed above. Then ask them what they would need from you, as an assist, so you are both participating in a collaborative way.